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 looked for the kingdom received the blessed answer “Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.”

The other great truth which constitutes Christianity is, the presence of the Holy Ghost; that the believer receives, so that he is sealed with it and that the Spirit dwells in him. We have a kind of picture of the connection of both in John xx., when the Lord first says to Mary Magdalene to tell His brethren “I go to my Father and your Father, my God and your God;” and, then, when they gather He is there and says to them, “Peace be unto you,” and “as my Father hath sent me so send I you. And when he had said this he breathed on them and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost.” I merely take the general thought that we get the disciples, the brethren, put into the same relationship to God and the Father as Christ Himself, peace proclaimed to them and the Holy Ghost communicated to them.

I return to the Galatians, to which I first referred. We have seen how the apostle makes justification by faith a question of Christianity, or the contrary, and this we have seen confirmed by a crowd of passages, and divine righteousness put as the answer to there being none righteous, no, not one, amongst men, and this by the work of Christ effectual to us by faith, so that we are perfected for ever by one offering, and no sin imputed to us. The apostle shews how this is no allowance of sin, but the way o1 power against it, in Romans vi., only here I confine myself to the point in hand.

Now let us see what is said as to the Holy Spirit. This is directly everywhere connected with the exaltation of Christ as man to the right hand of God; that when man in the person of the Lord Jesus was exalted